pommel

The 26-year-old, from County Down, Northern Ireland, won a gold medal for Team Ireland in the pommel horse at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025

Nedoroscik secured his second bronze medal in the individual pommel horse final on Aug. 3.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2024

Nedoroscik brought his pommel horse skills to Thursday’s announcement, balancing on his hands on a mat as he swung his legs around his body — in dress pants, no less.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2024

Rhys McClenaghan completed the gymnastics' 'Grand Slam' after winning gold on the pommel horse apparatus.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2024

“They won’t be able to cross for a while. Until then, we’ll put him with the sheep,” Osh said as he tied the end of the rope around the pommel of Clover’s saddle.

From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk

In the team finals however, a nightmarish set on pommels sent the Americans tumbling to fifth.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2023

Hilts and pommels were and are the most common decoration, for dragonglass is too brittle to make a useful crossguard.

From Time ● Jul. 17, 2017

The 1996 Olympic pommel horse champion Donghua Li performed a surprisingly moving routine to pommels attached to the balance beam.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2016

The 7th Century hoard of 1,600 items including sword pommels, helmet parts and processional crosses was valued at £3.285m.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2015

They hand their burdens to others while they mount, then take the sacks again and loop them over the pommels of their saddles.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks

Illinois pommeled Northwestern, 7-6; Minnesota bewildered Iowa, 38-0.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the attempt, My Philadelphia Father got pommeled and knocked about like one of Biddle's sparring partners, and Biddle himself at times got kept out of sight in his corner.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bud and Mel had the advantage of surprise, and soon pommeled and grappled their foes into submission.

From Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung by Brey, Charles

The workmen, seeing the reinforcements, beat a retreat, carrying their sadly pommeled comrades with them, but their insulting language was not restricted until they had passed out of hearing.

From Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)

David cried, pleaded, pommeled the Phoenix with his fists.

From David and the Phoenix by Raysor, Joan

The invaders, pushed and pommelled by dint of such audacity and hard hitting, were cooped up like sheep into narrower and narrower space.

From Hellenica by Dakyns, Henry Graham

The Loco-Focos, thus hemmed in between two fires, were gloriously pommelled for about five minutes.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various

Every man endeavoured to be the first in making his exit, the door and passage were blocked up; each individual was pommelled by the person that happened to be behind him.

From The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Smollett, T. (Tobias)

A capital dinner was served for him on the middle deck, and the dog was rolled about and pommelled till he came to life again.

From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Hedin, Sven Anders

He stirred and pommelled the Mulgars with his pole.

From The Three Mulla-mulgars by De la Mare, Walter

Old friends and allies did their best to save Britain this final pommeling.

From Time Magazine Archive

“In my castle,” says Joinville, “whosoever uses bad language receives a good pommeling, and this has nearly put down that bad habit.”

From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

"A generous fellow plays for the play, a sordid one for the stake; an old fogy sits by and smokes the pipe of tranquillity, while Jack and Tom are pommeling each other in the ring."

From The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy by Thackeray, William Makepeace

Charity rewarded his chivalrous pommeling of Cheever by asking him never to come near her again.

From We Can't Have Everything by Hughes, Rupert

He caught the subway with the crowd of stockbrokers who came romping out of the stock exchange like released schoolboys after the day's tension, pommeling and shoving each other with released glee.

From Making Money by Johnson, Owen

Hilda, in the excitement of the moment, had stopped to exchange a word with the doctor's coachman as he stood by the horses, pommelling his chest and clapping his hands.

From Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates by Dodge, Mary Mapes

In this kind of moral pommelling which sensitive women feel—as they do—how could I have indulged!

From The Gates Between by Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

His will-power grows by a species of pommelling; not by the higher tactics of wrestling.

From The Gates Between by Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

Presently they reached a point from which the cistern-keeper was visible, seated, as usual, just within the door pommelling the pavement.

From The Prince of India — Volume 02 by Wallace, Lewis

As the clenched fist likewise somewhat resembles an apple, perhaps that might occasion the term pommelling to be applied to fisty-cuffs.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis